Why don't you learn to read the room? Jack's a hero around here.
Why do you think otherwise? Because he couldn't control the evil folks that threw him out at twitter?
I would think that since these are all roof projects that the salt spray concentration rapidly goes down as you stack more stories. Assuming that the seastead is 10ft off the water and these are on the 3rd floor above the deck, we're talking about 30+ feet in the air here.
I always assumed the PV panels would need a good squeegeeing each week or so anyway... But do you really think the spray would hurt the gardens up there?
Very true. I want someone to go onto CNBC Sqwakbox and answer every question ending with this line!
Please don't stink up this pristine place with panhandling! It's cringe AF.
I'm pretty sure this would only affect merchant adoption in the US. Many would at least remove those "Bitcoin accepted here" signs and stop reporting any bitcoin income to the IRS.
Sounds good to me, actually. Bitcoin merchant adoption in the US is near zippo.
Or... Since this wouldn't discriminate hodling (nay, quite the opposite) then the outcome would just be felt at merchants... Many in the US would indeed stop accepting BTC publicly. (Poor bitcoin Sign industry!)
But let's face it. Merchant adoption in the US is abysmal. The rest of the world is where the good stuff is happening on this front. All these startup economies like bitcoin Beach, bitcoin Lake, Bitcoin Ekasi, etc... Those will all shine like a beacon to the whole world as they grow.
Americans who still want to use it will then be incentivized to use more permissionless tools. This part is very good for bitcoin. Ideal, in fact. It takes bitcoin back to it's cyberpunk origins in the mind of all americans.
The price may take a small hit at some point, but this really isn't unwelcome news.
Or... Since this wouldn't discriminate hodling (nay, quite the opposite) then the outcome would just be felt at merchants... Many in the US would indeed stop accepting BTC publicly. (Poor bitcoin Sign industry!)
But let's face it. Merchant adoption in the US is abysmal. The rest of the world is where the good stuff is happening on this front. All these startup economies like bitcoin Beach, bitcoin Lake, Bitcoin Ekasi, etc... Those will all shine like a beacon to the whole world as they grow.
Americans who still want to use it will then be incentivized to use more permissionless tools. This part is very good for bitcoin. Ideal, in fact. It takes bitcoin back to it's cyberpunk origins in the mind of all americans.
The price may take a small hit at some point, but this really isn't unwelcome news.
Or... Since this wouldn't discriminate hodling (nay, quite the opposite) then the outcome would just be felt at merchants... Many in the US would indeed stop accepting BTC publicly. (Poor bitcoin Sign industry!)
But let's face it. Merchant adoption in the US is abysmal. The rest of the world is where the good stuff is happening on this front. All these startup economies like bitcoin Beach, bitcoin Lake, Bitcoin Ekasi, etc... Those will all shine like a beacon to the whole world as they grow.
Americans who still want to use it will then be incentivized to use more permissionless tools. This part is very good for bitcoin. Ideal, in fact. It takes bitcoin back to it's cyberpunk origins in the mind of all americans.
The price may take a small hit at some point, but this really isn't unwelcome news.
I'd think so, and temperature too. It's just seawater & sunlight...
I WANT TO BELIEVE - Distillation cheaper than tap water
According to this MIT paper, they've cracked sunlight-driven water distillation that uses no electricity yet provides 5 Liters of distilled, drinkable water per hour per meter squared!
I think if we didn't have bitcoin, then the end of the Fiat experiment, as obviously flawed as it was, would take us all the way down to apocolyptic near-extinction. Maybe full extinction if combined with nuclear war.
With bitcoin we have a real chance of a "soft landing." Family by family, or even individual by individual, we will all have a point where we feel the money we're told to use fails us and bitcoin is a _useful_ alternative.
Multiply that by 8 Billion people and you've completely ended state's control over the money supply and no major event happens like an economic collapse... There would be an equal and opposite Economy growing at the same time and eventually everyone will be in it. (Yes, even Krugman & Schiff)
What's on your roof?
Rooftop real estate is going to be much more valuable on a seastead. Depending on which 'public' utilities are offered to the community, your roof will likely have one or more of the following options on it:
Sun Deck:
Some may simply want more square footage to stand on, such as a sun deck, like we saw on the first seastead in Thailand circa 2019. A nearly free option, this would require building your roof to support as much weight as your floor.
Personal Garden:
Like a Sun Deck, a year-round garden would make an excellent rooftop addition but would not be cheap to install. It would need a walkpath around it, a drainage system so it doesn't get washed away every downpour, and as much or even more floor bracing than the sundeck did to hold up the weight of all that soil and water.
Storage Shed:
Pack rats may opt to simply throw a storage shed up there, not unlike the $300 backyard barns you can buy at your local hardware store today. Again, roof bracing needs to hold it's weight.
Solar Power Generation:
Solar panels would be a major, common choice for most, because decentralized energy, even if available only half the time, is free after the cost of the panels. Batteries like Tesla's power wall would be ideal for keeping a home powered 24-7 from such panels if no central power options were offered. That does come at a pretty expense, however.
Freshwater Gathering:
The most cheap option is likely a simple rain cachement tray over your homestead, which decentralizes your fresh water source making that nearly free. Of course the H2O has to be stored somewhere, so anyone deploying a rain cachement roof will have to include a large water tank at least 1 floor beneath it. (Sucking up more real estate footage.)
Wind Power Generation:
If a seastead sees near-constant wind, a few small vertical poles could hold up windmills. One on each corner of the dwelling, in fact, perhaps more. While this isn't a cheap option it can be combined with any of the above options, because these windmills will sit higher up, on poles.
So which will it be?
Your own roof will likely be the same as every other roof around you for one good reason: The availability of lower-cost services on your seastead. If there were no cheap power or water options available, then most seasteaders would need to both cache rain and generate power upstairs, which would most likely be the rain cachement tray with a few windmills. Since rainwater is very clear, I could see a cachement tray made with solar panels at the bottom of it as well.
If your community supplies cheap power but not water, then everyone would have to do cachement but might reserve up to half the room for gardening or storage.
If your community supplies desalinated water but no central power, then few would use any cachement (again, takes up room downstairs) but everyone would likely have both solar panels and wind turbines vying for space up there.
Only if your seastead offers both, would a variety of choices prevail, giving people the option to use the space how they see fit. This would make the seastead far more interesting & able to be personalized.
Wind, bio diesel (likely run off fish oils), and wood gasification (on-demand hydrogen as with http://www.protonpower.com/technology ) will also eventually have a place in this tool stack.
Bio diesel is interesting... I've already addressed wind in #4. (personal use only, I'd say) Where are we going to get the wood to gasify?
Impostor identification idea:
If any two people on nostr dare use the same username with the same picture, it's quite obvious that the user that came later is the impostor.
Of course you don't want your client to check every posts' user to see if there is an older user out there with that Username+Pic by default... That would be a lot of needless requests.
-But how many impostors would go out and get verified by a paid service like NostrVerified or Nostr-check? That would cost sats, so it would be a perfect wast of money.
Therefore, clients could simply do a username+Pic check on all non-verified(paid) accounts. That should put an end to impostors here in a way that OldBirdApp never had.
I AM BORED AND HAVE LITTLE NEW TO SAY BUT OK!
Pay-to-follow would basically prevent everyone from getting their first followers. That's clearly too extreme. Pay-to-comment seems impossible to enforce, because there isn't such a thing as 'comments turned off' in NOSTR anyway.
Pay-to-relay is the one I'm hearing most often but it's not enough IMHO. If a spammer just paid 1 relay with a large reach it would still get to tons of people. There would always be free relays too, anyway.
I'm thinking a real attempt to design spam blockers here would be another 2nd layer technology, perhaps a paid whitelist built into clients, or some kind of web of trust.
All great points, I fully agree.
I'd heard of Xeer law but shamefully haven't gotten a chance to read up on it yet. Thanks for the book recommendation.
When you get down to it, any worthwhile set of laws is just an exercise in writing down our built-in feelings of morality. Voluntaryism is the best such set of morals I know of and I'd think one day we'll see a whole, flushed-out legal system based upon it.
I got 58 new spammy-looking, zero-post new followers today... Jimeny Crickets!
Anyone got a clue how we're going to with the war on spam on #nostr?
Lol. -> Me over here all day long on https://kycnot.me
I friggin' love this. Nostr has so far left us completely devoid of all decent markup, and therefore nuance, across all clients until this. Looks great so far!
Akihabara, Harajuku, and Asakusa are all great for different reasons.
Stay around Shinjuku if you can and check out the local food & malls there.
Bonus Points: Eat at the Tsukiji Fish Market!
Nostr is a 2nd internet that prioritizes censorship resistance & privacy. Which of your projects pushes these ideals/goals harder?
I'm not a dev, but I imagine those secrets to be kept in sharded, ecrypted files split between relays. As for your master PW (I assume PrivKey) you would most likely have a different set of secrets (account credentials) for different privkeys. The L2 solution would be to bind all your PrivKeys together in one account that has some kind of key rotation scheme behind it.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Key rotation itself seems to need a higher level solution in nostr. Bitcoin L1 is the value storage layer, and I believe Nostr L1 is the note storage layer. It'll definitely have L2 solutions for many areas like privacy, Key rotation & CDNs.
The best possible uses for Nostr (created or not) in order:
1. TOR Coordination - Every nostr user or relay can optionally relay TOR as an alternative DMT.
2. Bittorrent Coordination - Every nostr user (in browser!) can store and relay bittorrent data. (This is important to use it as a CDN for the social medial layer)
3. Lightning Coordination - Lightning nodes can be coordinated much easier & more privately via automatic communications over Nostr.
4. Password Management - The best password managers are available to the whole web, just highly encrypted. Additional security can be had by Sharding a password file and keeping it on multiple different relays.
5. Bitcoin private markets - Other than lightning coordination, bitcoin can be Bought & Sold very privately a marketplace that uses Nostr to communicate it's order books.
6. Social Media - Clones of every social media site like instaG, twitter, FB, tiktok, blogs, etc all have their own apps or heck, why not combine all into one super app like Elon is trying to do?
7. Messaging - Better than Whatsapp/Line/Signal, Nostr allows perfectly secure & anonymous instant messaging. The frilly stuff may need the CDN again.
Welcome to Open Nuclear
Although there is something of a nuclear renaissance happening now, it's extraordinarily time consuming and costly to bring a nuclear plant online. The global average construction time is about [10 years](https://twitter.com/GrantChalmers/status/1443501885948776452). The most recent US reactor, Vogtle Reactor #3 in Georgia, took 10 years, and cost ~$15 billion in 2021 dollars.
IMO, much of this cost in time and money is due to a nuclear regulatory regime designed to strangle the industry. For example, the Vogle plant was the first new nuclear plant to be approved for construction by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 30 years. [Bret Kudelmass, CEO of Last Energy](https://niklasanzinger.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-the-most-stranded) goes into the reasons why nuclear industry has become so stagnant.
The philosophy of the Open Nuclear project is the same as that of the 3d-printed gun community -- make draconian nuclear regulations moot by making the construction and fueling of a nuclear reactor so simple that an individual or small group could safely construct and fuel one with or without state approval.
Aimed at household / small apartment building energy needs, it would be based on ~50 kW designs intended originally for spacecraft, the Kilopower project. With a Kilopower-like design, it should be possible build a reactor in any shop capable of welding 1" stainless steel.
As it is intended for long space missions, the Kilopower design is designed to be simple and robust. The only moving part is the control rod. A 10 kW reactor core only weighs about 100 lb (98 kg), and would only need to be replaced every 15 years or so. The entire apparatus is expected to weigh ~3300 lb (1500 kg).
The 5 kW KRUSTY Kilopower prototype was designed and constructed with a budget under $20 million. While well beyond the budget of most individuals, this figure is no doubt greatly inflated by the project's requirements to work within the existing nuclear regulatory apparatus.
Given the quality of modern CAD / modeling software, it should be possible to design most of the components inexpensively in software before attempting physical construction.
The hardest part is likely to be sourcing the uranium, so the first priority would be to design the uranium brine mining system. If brine mining uranium can be made cost effective, it will become increasingly difficult for state actors to control the supply of uranium:
There are a number of other valuble minerals extractable from salt water as described here:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/ew/c6ew00268d
A household nuclear generator could make underwater seasteads more practical, as nuclear power does not require access to oxygen or sunlight in order to work. Brine mining and seabed mining could also be a lucrative source of income for seastead based communities.
There is already an effort to create an open source, open hardware large reactor design, the Open100. Bret Kugelmass introduces the Open100 project here:
This is so ambitious I thought it might even be a joke... A+ for bravery!
What an awesome world we'd live in if this tech was accessible as 3D printed guns.
Clearly we jumped 16 and are on 17 already... Lots of 16 to come, however.